We were a bit apprehensive about driving with the big snow predictions, but decided to try our luck and drive to Lynchburg, home of Jack Daniels, about an hour away on backroads. It was the first time we really got to see small towns and the long open roads with very ‘southern’ houses with rocking chairs on the porches.
We arrived at the Jack Daniels distillery just as the snow started. We took the free hour long tour. It was really interesting and the JD smelt great! Unfortunately, Lynchburg (and JD) are in a ‘dry’ county – meaning there are no bars and no bottle shop/off licences. So you can’t drink JD at the JD distillery. Smelling it and learning about it really made us fancy a drink of it – but we would have to wait until the evening.
Went into Lynchburg historic town and had a wander, but decided to head back to a little town we drove through on the way.
In Shelbyville we stopped at an old fashioned general store/cafe run by Cindy Stephenson. Here we had a hotdog and a southern speciality, pulled pork sandwich. We had a long chat with the lovely Cindy and she gave us lots of tips and even some free stuff from the shop including lip balm for our dry chapped lips. She even insisted she come outside and take a picture of us in front of the town hall.
Found a great vintage cowboy shop, ‘Katy K’s Ranch Dressing’ where I bought a vintage man’s checked shirt to wear as a dress and a leather studded cowboy belt.
Took a cab to downtown broadway for a night out. We really could have walked, but it was so cold, we felt it would be dangerous to. Went to a famous bar –Roberts Western World and had a few beers and listened to a great band with an absolutely incredible guitarist. We were really starting to get into the modern country music.
Went to grab some food from a bar with American college football on big screens – the Alabama v Texas game drew the local crowds in the big sports bar. Finally got to have some JD back at the western bar, and realised it’s not very nice tasting and I’ve never really liked it. The smell is much better than the taste!
According to the weather reports (and those lit up temperature signs on buildings), it reached -24C. Words really can’t describe how cold that is. That is ‘walk outside without a coat and die in 10 minutes’ cold. But there wasn’t the ‘massive’ snow that the news forecasted !
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